Looking Ahead “IT Built into Jewellery” and MIT’s Sixth Sense
by Jenny Ambrozek
While this story dates from March 12 for anyone interested in the future of technology and work to me it is still worth sharing. The Futurephile article title “IT built into jewellery” featured Dr. Henry Tirri, Nokia’s head of research forecasting, not surprizingly, significantly increased use of mobile, and by the year 2050 that:
Information and physical reality are becoming deeply interwined. It is only a matter of time before we can take the information from one location–such as the pattern on the shirt I am wearing– and reconstruct far away.
Based on MIT’s Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry’s TED presentation of their “Sixth Sense”, “game-changing wearable tech”, the ability to mesh information and physical reality is closer than 2050. Here’s the video .
Just imagine the implications for working when information can be summoned and displayed in the ways the “Sixth Sense’ promises. Thoughts anyone?
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